I Would Like To Have Quotes

#1. I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

Michel Houellebecq

#2. I would like to have a girlfriend who is more mature than my mental age.

Yuki

#3. I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.

Ridley Scott

#4. If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.

Holly Madison

#5. I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Wislawa Szymborska

#6. I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Leonardo Sciascia

#7. To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.

Daniel Radcliffe

#8. I would like to have a more social life than I have.

Claire Tomalin

#9. Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.

Mary Ruefle

#10. I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.

Susan Orlean

#11. I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.

Rhys Darby

#12. I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

Matthew Bourne

#13. I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

Otto Penzler

#14. The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

Angie Stone

#15. I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#16. I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

Jennifer Lopez

#17. I would like to have my gun for protection.

Taya Kyle

#18. The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Nora Ephron

#19. Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.

Robert Hass

#20. Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I've seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#21. I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.

Isabel Allende

#22. I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#23. I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

Stacy Keibler

#24. I would like to have campaign spending limits.

Mitt Romney

#25. I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

Alan Arkin

#26. Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.

Marc Garneau

#27. I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

Ryan Phillippe

#28. Silentiary (n.) An official whose job it is to command silence. I would like to have my very own silentiary, someone I can bring to the library and to the apartment next door. Sitzfleisch

Ammon Shea

#29. I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

Jasper Johns

#30. I don't want to be THE president, but I would like to have A president.

Rush Limbaugh

#31. I don't think I'd ever want to direct. I don't think I have as much discipline to direct as I would like to have, and I don't want my hair color to not go grey during that process.

Liana Liberato

#32. I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Anthony Hopkins

#33. I'm 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? I'm young at heart and I would be different this time round.

Brigitte Nielsen

#34. I would like to have a 'Lost' clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top.

Henry Ian Cusick

#35. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy.

George Nolfi

#36. To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

Holly Near

#37. When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Yul Brynner

#38. I take some pride in ... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

Robert Downey Jr.

#39. I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

Douglas William Jerrold

#40. I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

Tim Daly

#41. I would like to have a big white wedding and eventually have a family.

Alessandra Ambrosio

#42. I would like to have it for my whole life. You will, the other part of him said. You will. You have it _now_ and that is all your whole life is; now.

Ernest Hemingway,

#43. I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

Keith Thibodeaux

#44. It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

Sheri S. Tepper

#45. I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Erich Von Stroheim

#46. I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

Henry Rollins

#47. I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

Aleksandar Hemon

#48. There's a difference between what I would like to have been and what I would have been. I always fantasized about being a reforming judge or prison governor (I think that the UK penal system is a disgrace) - but it's fantasy.

Mary Beard

#49. I would like to have three or four kids.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#50. In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.

Faye Wattleton

#51. I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#52. I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

Richard M. Nixon

#53. I would like to have as much going on as other people do, but my problem is I get so attached to things, and there's my kids, and I need my sleep, and then there's being married - gotta check in on that, too.

Joss Whedon

#54. If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.

James L. Cambias

#55. I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.

Alber Elbaz

#56. Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?

Donna Farhi

#57. I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

Nanette Lepore

#58. I find the college children delightful. I would like to have a drink with them too." "No, Leif, you want to drink of them, and they can sense that subconsciously because you radiate this predatory aura.

Kevin Hearne

#59. I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own - on my own, not through you.

Helen Oyeyemi

#60. That's because my show is on a major network and you can't show all that stuff, and also because my dad is alive and I would like to have lunch with him without feeling mired in dishonor.

Mindy Kaling

#61. I would like to have won more golf tournaments. But I wouldn't sacrifice my life. I've enjoyed it. I'd love to do it again the same way.

Arnold Palmer

#62. Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to "How do I bear this?" need not always be "Endure.

Anna Lyndsey

#63. I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Nicholas Brendon

#64. I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

Ralph Bakshi

#65. If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Amanda Burton

#66. I would like to have windshield wipers that do the whole windshield, please.

Demetri Martin

#67. I would like to have seen the world with eyes incapable of anything but wonder, and with a tongue fluent only in praise.

Pat Conroy

#68. I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

William Howard Taft

#69. How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities.

Margaret Atwood

#70. Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

Joan Rivers

#71. Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#72. Where there is no 'superior', no underhand; such is the moksha [ultimate liberation] of the Vitaraag Lords [the enlightened ones] that I would like to have.

Dada Bhagwan

#73. I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

David Beckham

#74. One day I would like to have my own art show.

Kiana Tom

#75. I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

Stephen Schwartz

#76. After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Yoko Ono

#77. I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

Margot Asquith

#78. I would like to have opportunities in my career to do parts that people would remember - either the whole character or certain moments that they personally could really connect to or were really affected by it deeply.

Austin Peck

#79. I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

Eminem

#80. Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

Tabitha Soren

#81. I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work ... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.

Dave Barry

#82. Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

Brittany Howard

#83. In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.

Anthony Jeselnik

#84. If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires.
I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky.

Addie Zierman

#85. Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

Barbara Bush

#86. Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

Nikki Blonsky

#87. As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Goh Chok Tong

#88. I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#89. I don't have to come back politically, but I would like to do something that will help the people of Thailand. There must be a process under which I can come back. I want to come back to clear the chaos in Thailand, the civil war in Thailand.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#90. If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

Shreya Ghoshal

#91. You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

Donny Osmond

#92. We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.

David Pajo

#93. God, I can't even begin to tell you ... I just wish that you could have felt it too. So that when you found your Jake Andrews, you would know. You would know what it felt like to stand in front of your forever.

Jay McLean

#94. I'm not going to pretend I know how this ends, and I don't have a freaking clue if it's possible to fall in love over email. But I would really like to meet you, Blue. I want to try this. And I can't imagine a scenario where I don't want to kiss your face off as soon as I see you.

Becky Albertalli

#95. Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.

George Eliot

#96. Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.

Tabitha Suzuma

#97. I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown

Paula Danziger

#98. Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

Miranda Hart

#99. Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'

Adrienne Bailon

#100. In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Venus Williams